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		Bad news: County would lay off more than 1,000 under Preckwinkle budget. Good news: "Preckwinkle" is pretty fun to say. Try it (suntimes.com)		25
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Jeebus Saves

2011-10-24 03:41:38 PM

A little over a month ago, Preckwinkle came to my place of employment to hold a press conference touting the tax breaks it gives companies which in turn creates jobs. Cook County gave my company something like $4 million dollars in tax breaks. We didn't know the topic of the press conference, and as we heard it, we were all pretty much speechless. 2 weeks before the press conference, they laid off 36 people. The next week they laid off a dozen more.

R.A.Danny

2011-10-24 03:48:22 PM

Jeebus Saves: . 2 weeks before the press conference, they laid off 36 people. The next week they laid off a dozen more.

To be fair, job titles such as "Sleep behind a desk engineer, Sleep on a truck engineer, and Sleep in the park engineer" really should be culled.

Cake Hunter

2011-10-24 04:09:58 PM

Preckwinkle.

gerrymander

2011-10-24 04:11:20 PM

~~Bad~~ Good news: County would lay off more than 1,000 under Preckwinkle budget.

FTFY, subby. The Cook County employment rolls are bloated with incompetent and inept hires, whose only qualifications were political alliance to/kickbacks for county board members. It had been that way for decades, and would have continued being that way if not for the fatal double tap of a crappy economy and Kid Stroger being himself too blatantly corrupt for even his father's political machine.

A thousand jobs on the chopping block is a good start.

The-Brain

2011-10-24 04:23:38 PM

The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Preckwinkle.

FirstNationalBastard

2011-10-24 04:45:52 PM

Preckwinkle. Gerrymander. Bouffant. Mukluks. Gazebo.

Cake Hunter

2011-10-24 04:49:23 PM

FirstNationalBastard: Preckwinkle. Gerrymander. Bouffant. Mukluks. Gazebo.

Tuberculosis.

FirstNationalBastard

2011-10-24 04:52:15 PM

Cake Hunter: FirstNationalBastard: Preckwinkle. Gerrymander. Bouffant. Mukluks. Gazebo.

Tuberculosis.

I notice you're not wearing any... galoshes. I'm wearing... galoshes. Galoshes.

Masterstuff

2011-10-24 05:18:24 PM

FirstNationalBastard: Cake Hunter: FirstNationalBastard: Preckwinkle. Gerrymander. Bouffant. Mukluks. Gazebo.

Tuberculosis.

I notice you're not wearing any... galoshes. I'm wearing... galoshes. Galoshes.

Seattle.

Hollyfeld

2011-10-24 05:20:19 PM

gerrymander: Bad Good news: County would lay off more than 1,000 under Preckwinkle budget.

FTFY, subby. The Cook County employment rolls are bloated with incompetent and inept hires, whose only qualifications were political alliance to/kickbacks for county board members. It had been that way for decades, and would have continued being that way if not for the fatal double tap of a crappy economy and Kid Stroger being himself too blatantly corrupt for even his father's political machine.

A thousand jobs on the chopping block is a good start.

I figured I wouldn't be the first to say it. Cook County is seriously bloated with patronage hires. This is a good first step.

Victoly

2011-10-24 05:44:33 PM

paswa17

2011-10-24 05:46:43 PM

/hokey smoke!

saintstryfe

2011-10-24 05:48:28 PM

Relevant. (new window)

skinink

2011-10-24 07:03:00 PM

The only problem is how many of those slackers will be laid off? Most likely alot of workers with connections will ride out the cuts, while many of the cuts may fall on the good workers.

Ishidan

2011-10-24 07:52:08 PM

Hollyfeld:
I figured I wouldn't be the first to say it. Cook County is seriously bloated with patronage hires. This is a good first step.
Is there a government agency that ISN'T?

Satanic_Hamster

2011-10-24 10:20:17 PM

Hollyfeld: gerrymander: Bad Good news: County would lay off more than 1,000 under Preckwinkle budget.

FTFY, subby. The Cook County employment rolls are bloated with incompetent and inept hires, whose only qualifications were political alliance to/kickbacks for county board members. It had been that way for decades, and would have continued being that way if not for the fatal double tap of a crappy economy and Kid Stroger being himself too blatantly corrupt for even his father's political machine.

A thousand jobs on the chopping block is a good start.

I figured I wouldn't be the first to say it. Cook County is seriously bloated with patronage hires. This is a good first step.

Do you honestly think she'll be firing the six figure making patronage hirings and bs employees or low level shmucks who have little impact on the budget?

Candygram4Mongo

2011-10-24 10:25:22 PM

Boxcutta

2011-10-24 10:40:48 PM

Preckwinkle in time.

MrEricSir

2011-10-24 10:59:31 PM

"Job craters" -- the holes where large numbers of jobs once were.

farkin_Gary

2011-10-24 11:37:13 PM

Jeebus Saves: ...we were all pretty much speechless.

losers

lumazi

2011-10-25 05:17:21 AM

Candygram4Mongo: FirstNationalBastard: Cake Hunter: FirstNationalBastard: Preckwinkle. Gerrymander. Bouffant. Mukluks. Gazebo.

Tuberculosis.

I notice you're not wearing any... galoshes. I'm wearing... galoshes. Galoshes.

MACADAMIA

"Shoe" ................ "Megaphone" ................. "Grunties"

How do you rate your embarrassment response? (a) High (b) Hello (c) Good evening.

SuperTramp

2011-10-25 06:14:52 AM

Also on the front page of this morning's Trib:

"Chicago's financial exchanges would see a 50 percent decrease in their Illinois corporate income tax bills under legislation introduced Monday afternoon by Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago.

Illinois would tax a fraction of the income generated by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Board Options Exchange, all of which have threatened to move operations out of state after Illinois temporarily raised its income tax earlier this year."

The people of this city have a corporate gun pointed at our collective heads.

Tyrone Slothrop

2011-10-25 08:05:03 AM

lumazi: Candygram4Mongo: FirstNationalBastard: Cake Hunter: FirstNationalBastard: Preckwinkle. Gerrymander. Bouffant. Mukluks. Gazebo.

Tuberculosis.

I notice you're not wearing any... galoshes. I'm wearing... galoshes. Galoshes.

MACADAMIA

"Shoe" ................ "Megaphone" ................. "Grunties"

How do you rate your embarrassment response? (a) High (b) Hello (c) Good evening.

Wankle rotary engine

gerrymander

2011-10-25 01:02:03 PM

Satanic_Hamster: Hollyfeld: gerrymander: Bad Good news: County would lay off more than 1,000 under Preckwinkle budget.

FTFY, subby. The Cook County employment rolls are bloated with incompetent and inept hires, whose only qualifications were political alliance to/kickbacks for county board members. It had been that way for decades, and would have continued being that way if not for the fatal double tap of a crappy economy and Kid Stroger being himself too blatantly corrupt for even his father's political machine.

A thousand jobs on the chopping block is a good start.

I figured I wouldn't be the first to say it. Cook County is seriously bloated with patronage hires. This is a good first step.

Do you honestly think she'll be firing the six figure making patronage hirings and bs employees or low level shmucks who have little impact on the budget?

You assume there's a difference between the two. There isn't. The low-level jobs are also patronage jobs staffed by politically-connected incompetents.

Disaster Transport

2011-10-25 03:32:33 PM

Also part of this plan is to increase taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and automobile sales. Those familiar with Cook County's tax history already know that the people in suburban Cook County would rather see 2,000 people laid off than to have to pay more county taxes. Municipalities are already losing businesses to neighboring counties. Buying items in Lake County (where I work) saves me 2% on standard sales tax items.

/over 500 of the 1,000 jobs "cut" are vacant positions

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